So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.

People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

You men,' she says. 'You durn men.

Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you

War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.

When I was a boy I first learned how much better water tastes when it has set a while in a cedar bucket. Warmish-cool, with a faint taste like the hot July wind in Cedar trees smells.

The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.